There’s a cool new restaurant on Colfax that pairs pizzas and meatballs with craft cocktails and draft beer. The cozy DC Pie Co. features an 80-person dining room and center bar, with a traditional brick oven in the back imported from Italy. Brooklyn based entrepreneur Dominic Cavagnuolo (DC) and Mary Zayaruzny teamed up to deliver Brooklyn-style brick-oven pizza featuring a mean marinara sauce that’s been passed down from DC’s two Italian grandmothers.

All-beef meatballs served with homemade spiced ricotta and house marinara

“Here at DC PIE CO., it all starts with the ingredients,” said DC. “Our sauce is made from scratch every single day with ingredients sourced from local producers. We’re bringing simple recipes and fresh ingredients to Denver, just as I was able to experience as a kid growing up in Brooklyn, NY.” In fact, 99% of DC PIE CO.’s ingredients are made in house, from the cheese, to the dough, to their must-try meatballs, served with their marinara sauce of course!

The Italian brick oven & pizza making area

Keeping things fresh and simple isn’t too difficult with a small menu like theirs. The menu is simple, yet high tech. There are six categories, Pie, Extras, Salads, Sides, Baked & Dessert, and the menu itself is on a “Pop Up and Pay”™ tablet-like menu that allows guests to expedite their ordering and payment process. The Pizza comes plain or vegan and you select toppings like their spicy slices of pepperoni (which you can also order solo because they’re delicious) to imported Italian artichoke hearts, red peppers and portabella mushrooms, all delivered fresh daily! There are seven salads on the menu ranging from familiars like kale Caesar and Caprese to more creative combinations like celery root + fennel or the watercress + pear salad.

We salivated over all their Baked items: the crispy pepperoni “chips”, the juicy, all-beef meatballs served with homemade spiced ricotta and marinara, and the brick-oven baked wings drizzled in their sweet hot sauce. To top it off, all three of their Baked items are on their Happy Hour menu, which is Saturday and Sunday from 3-6pm. Monday through Wednesday’s they have a Brooklyn pie and bottle of wine special for Colfax neighbors for $24! And percentage of all profits from this are donated to the Pediatric Mental Health Institute at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

Happy Hour also has $2 off all drafts and specialty cocktails. They have seven Colorado draft beers and one Pennsylvania Trippel. There’re eight specialty cocktails that all feature different spirits and all-natural, house made ingredients that were impeccable. If you prefer to pair your pizza with a fine wine, DCP has you covered there too with a handful of reds, roses and white wines. For the kids, DC has six juices, soda, lemonade, or let them try a classic from DC’s childhood, a Brooklyn egg cream soda.

For more information, visit http://dcpieco.com/

Words by Tiffany Candelaria @TCdoesFnB Photos by Josh Stephens @freezerfilmfoto

Brooklyn egg cream soda and Nutella pizza

Colfax is our very own Cinderella story. From drug deals to delicious farm-to-table restaurants. Colfax has transformed into a modern day Kim K, all without losing its street cred. It's still that eclectic street where hole in the wall coffee joints exist next door to dilapidated buildings. But, that's exactly what makes Colfax so amazing... that and also the fact that it's home to 4 of our favorite music venues..

Tasty Colfax is an event that celebrates the randomness of Colfax. It sheds light on a multifarious area that is growing and rapidly becoming a hub for foodies and hipsters alike. Which is why we jumped on the opportunity to stuff our faces, jam out to music and explore this ever expanding food haven.

With 22 stops on our list we set out with determination. At around our 5th stop we started to get a little sluggish, but that didn't stop us from hitting all the marks. A few standouts were New World Cheese, The Good Son, Annie's Cafe and Bar, Tommy's Thai, The Humble Pie Store, Bastien's Restaurant, Fat Sully's Pizza and Denver Biscuit Co.

With a list like that it's hard to not make Tasty Colfax an annual tradition. Count us in for next year...and the year after that. Who knows what our eclectic, evolving street will become by then.

Getting served some top notch beer cheese curds from New World Cheese.

Ain't nothing better than good old fashioned BBQ from Annie's Cafe and Bar.